IUPUI At a Glance

17Schools granting degrees in health sciences, liberal arts, life sciences, engineering, and more

5,278IU degrees granted in 2017–18

1,662Purdue degrees granted in 2017–18

Spotlighting IUPUI Success

Naturalized citizen

Faculty Success

As about 100 men and women became U.S. citizens on November 14 at IUPUI’s Hine Hall Auditorium, Edgar Huang was across campus teaching. But he’s no stranger to the emotion and excitement that come with a naturalization ceremony. Huang became a citizen in 2010, ending a years-long odyssey from fearing for his safety after photographing the Tiananmen Square protests to settling with his family in Indiana.

Veteran and future nurse

Student Success

When Kalyn Scheidler was a senior in high school, she didn’t feel quite ready for college, so she enlisted in the National Guard. To her surprise, she was told her unit would be deployed to Afghanistan for nine months. After serving her country, Kalyn enrolled at IUPUI and found her new passion: nursing. The veteran will graduate in December and plans to continue as an active member of the National Guard and to one day be a nurse in the military.

Idea Garden

Campus success

At just a glance, it’s easy to see that the new space on the first floor of Hine Hall is something special. With eye-catching colors, a huge monitor wall, and impressively high-tech equipment stations around the room, the Idea Garden at IUPUI is attracting students like bees to honey. While the initial concept was a makerspace, director Julie Johnston and her colleagues soon realized that what they really wanted was a place to foster creativity through technology.